[WEB4LIB] Re: Welcome to the Schoogle Era

[Mark J. Ludwig]

Imagine if Google came up with a better
overall funding model than hundreds of libraries
paying a mix of agregators who
pay a mix of publishers,
redundantly.
It isn't hard to imagine scenarios that
might easily overcome our jerry-rigged
method of e-resource brokering.
Libraries are in the middle layer of
something that could be made more efficient,
maybe by eliminating the middle.

Mark J. Ludwig
Library Systems Manager
University Libraries
University at Buffalo
State University of New York
432 Capen Hall
Buffalo, NY 14260
(716) 645-5952

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karen Coyle" <kcoyle at kcoyle.net>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 11:48 AM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Welcome to the Schoogle Era


> On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 08:13, Thomas Dowling wrote:
> > Yeah but...
> >
> > This goes a long way toward undoing the last three or four years of work
> > on the appropriate copy problem.  Google knows an article exists: good.
> > Google points you to (and only to) some publisher's web site: maybe
> > good, maybe bad.  You may have access there, in which case it's good.
> > You may have access to the same article online through a different
> > aggregator, in which case it's remarkably bad.
>
> So what you're saying is that Google needs to implement the OpenURL?
> What this brings up is the difference between open, public access
> systems, like Google, and systems that rely on some level of
> "belonging", like being a bona fide member of an educational
> institution, or a card-holder at a particular library. As long as some
> information resources need to be paid for we'll need to monitor the
> state of "belonging" in order to provide access, and as we know that is
> a difficult problem on a scale the size of "Google users everywhere."
>
> What would be interesting would be to combine Schoogle with
> CreativeCommons and give preferred access to resources that are
> available with a CC license. CC has its own search engine for
> CC-licensed works, but it's a mish-mosh of odd web pages and signficant
> works.
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> Karen Coyle
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